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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Malvern Hills District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Malvern Hills website
40,288 approved · 7,079 refused · 3,397 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jul 1977 to 4 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inchgarth,369 Worcester Road,Malvern,Worcestershire,WR14 1AR
Received 4 Apr 201123 - 36 , Mill Meadow, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8HX
Received 19 Apr 19957 Longcroft Quay Lane Hanley Castle Worcester WR8 0BS
Received 24 Mar 2017Land At (Os 6325 6956) Knighton On Teme
Received 4 Mar 202426 Abbey Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3HD
Received 12 Feb 2015Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, St Andrews Road, Malvern, WR14 3PS
Received 28 Feb 2001Building At (Os 7665 3513) Chase End Street Bromsberrow
Received 4 Jan 2024Ploughs End, Corse Lawn, Worcestershire, GL19 4LZ
Received 14 Apr 2015Smithend Farm Uckinghall Tewkesbury GL20 6ES
Received 16 Jan 199221 Eston Avenue, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2SR
Received 17 Sept 200416 Old Road South, Kempsey, Worcester, WR5 3NJ
Received 2 Oct 2003Parkfield Victoria Road Malvern WR14 2TE
Received 11 Jul 2007Walsgrove Farm , Home Farm Lane, Great Witley, Worcester, WR6 6JJ
Received 27 Apr 1992Land At 32 Longridge Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3JB
Received 6 Apr 200692 Christine Avenue, Rushwick, Worcester, WR2 5SR
Received 23 Mar 1992Field opposite The Upper House, Alfrick, Worcester, WR6 5ES
Received 29 Apr 201426 Green Lane, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4HU
Received 28 Dec 2001Four Gables 5 Vicarage Close Hallow Worcester WR2 6PA
Received 15 Oct 2024Land At (Os 7566 6597) Worcester Road Great Witley
Received 20 Dec 2022Parsonage Farm , Bayton, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY14 9LQ
Received 24 Dec 1997Greenways , Roberts End, Hanley Swan, Worcester, WR8 0DL
Received 2 May 2007Eastgrove Farm , Sankyns Green, Little Witley, Worcester, WR6 6LQ
Received 24 Jan 19963 Court Meadow, Kempsey, Worcester, WR5 3JL
Received 25 Feb 1999The Dairy Worcester Road Great Witley Worcester WR6 6HR
Received 25 Nov 2008Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Malvern Hills District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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